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On March 1, I started my annual ritual of getting back into shape after a winter of hibernating.

It was not easy. The first few runs were painful and I had issues with my 30-year-old bike. But I persevered (and got a new bike) and the exercise became easier. At some point I decided to turn the exercise into training for a duathlon.

A “knock and talk” on Maddox Ridge Road resulted in the arrest of five adults for manufacturing methamphetamine.

On Friday, June 8, at about 11 p.m., Kentucky State Police arrived at 9610 Maddox Ridge Road to, according to an arrest citation, conduct a “knock and talk.” There, they found lithium strips and cut up batteries in a burn pit about 10 feet from the back door of the home.

According to arrest citations, state police found an alleged meth lab while searching the home.

Curtis Coombs grew up working with cows on his parents’ farm in Jericho. He could never imagine doing anything else.

When he went to college at the University of Kentucky, he studied in the agriculture department with the understanding that he would come back home to help his dad and uncle on the farm. Together the three grow corn for silage, alfalfa, about five acres of tobacco, breed their own cows and have a dairy operation.

Since February, the Pilot Travel Center 440 on Pendleton Road has failed five fuel inspections conducted by the Kentucky Department of Agriculture’s division of regulation and inspection resulting in stop sale orders.

Sherry Hamilton, Smithfield, and Chester Hamilton, Smithfield announce the engagement of their daughter, Jamie Renee Hamilton of Huntsville, Ala., to Aaron Richard Hignite of Huntsville, Ala., son of Mr. and Mrs. Randall Hignite, Versailles.
The bride-elect is a graduate of the University of Louisville and received her master’s degree at Bellarmine University.
The groom is a graduate of MTSU, Murfreesboro, Tenn., and is employed as a mechanical engineer by the US government in Huntsville.

Lawrence Bond and Kristy Clark would like to announce their engagement. The ceremony will be held at Pleasureville Baptist Church at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, June 30, 2012. A reception will follow in the fellowship hall located across the street from the church.
All friends and family are invited.

Mr. and Mrs. Steve Wood, Eminence announce the engagement of their son, Joshua S. Wood to Stephanie J. Pankow, daughter of William and Gloria Pankow, Ashland.
The bride-elect is a graduate of Centre College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish. She is also a graduate of University of Kentucky with a master’s degree in Health Administration. She is employed at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

As you travel around Henry County and most of the state, you probably notice the tall white flowered plants beside the roadways, along the fences, and out into some fields. The plant is Poison Hemlock, and it looks as if it is rapidly becoming the new Nodding Head Thistle as a problem for farmers.